Robert and Michelle King are building their own version of a shared universe—call it the King-verse. And one of their longtime collaborators is coming along for the ride.
Mike Colter is reuniting with the Kings for Cupertino, a David vs. Goliath legal drama currently in development at CBS. Colter, who starred in the Kings’ Evil and recurred as fan-favorite Lemond Bishop on The Good Wife and The Good Fight, is set to lead the new series—pending a formal series order from the network.
CBS greenlit a full writers’ room for Cupertino back in May after receiving a strong response to the pilot script. The writers’ room, set to open this fall, will deliver 12 additional scripts as the network eyes a potential 2026–27 premiere.
Set in Silicon Valley, Cupertino follows Colter’s character—a lawyer abruptly fired from a tech start-up as the company attempts to cheat him out of his stock options. Refusing to walk away quietly, he teams up with another recently ousted attorney to take on Big Tech, representing others who’ve been exploited by powerful tech elites.
The show is being produced by CBS Studios and the Kings’ King Size Productions, with Liz Glotzer also serving as executive producer.
Bringing Colter on board strengthens the Kings’ growing creative ecosystem. His ongoing collaborations with the duo mirror other actor-showrunner partnerships in TV history, like Amy Sherman-Palladino and Kelly Bishop or Ryan Murphy and Evan Peters.
For Colter, this marks another compelling role in an impressive resume. He most recently starred in Netflix’s The Union alongside Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg, and in Lionsgate’s Plane with Gerard Butler. He remains widely known for his turn as Marvel’s Luke Cage and earned two Critics Choice nominations for his work on Evil.
Cupertino joins a growing list of Silicon Valley-set TV dramas in the pipeline, including AMC’s The Audacity starring Billy Magnussen and Netflix’s still-developing tech industry drama led by Rosamund Pike.
If greenlit, Cupertino will become the latest addition to the Kings’ powerhouse legal legacy that began with The Good Wife and continued through The Good Fight and Elsbeth, the latter of which returns for season 3 soon.